Steve Hallett - Energy Quotes

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We should stop subsidizing the fossil-fuel industries and instead provide subsidies for local and community energy projects.

Steve Hallett

Cellular systems, ecosystems, and civilizations are, at base, thermodynamic systems.... The system uses energy, eventually releasing it as useless heat.... there is one vital difference between natural systems and human systems: natural systems receive a fixed energy input that never varies. If we could set a strict limit on energy use, we could build a human system that is just as stable as an ecosystem.

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What I'm proposing... is for governments to peel back support for large businesses, especially extractive industries. Instead, governments should support small businesses.... inhibit oversized energy and agricultural systems and promote smaller, localized ones.

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Fixed energy limits have not limited the progress of nature.

Steve Hallett

New technologies will not liberate us. Even if they do materialize they will not reduce our consumption of resources. They will not reduce our demand for energy. They will not diminish our impacts on the climate. And they will not bring about a better world.

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